Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Blovertis]

Imperial Oil station c.1937 Eastern Ave. at Mosley St.
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Love this T&N. In an incredibly fast-changing city, here is a corner of Toronto that has remained essentially untouched by time for 85 years.

 

[Goldie]

Leslie Street Public School c.1920s S/W corner Leslie St. at Sproat Ave.

 

[Goldie]

1229 Queen St. E. c.1920s at north-west corner Leslie St. CTA

 

[DSC]

1229 Queen St. E. c.1920s at north-west corner Leslie St. CTA
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That is certainly not an improvement :->

 

[adma]

That is certainly not an improvement :->

Could be worse, actually. Always had a soft spot for these 60s-style Modernist branch banks...

 

[Goldie]

CBC TV tower, Jarvis St. 1954 CTA

This may be the location of former CBC-TV studios and broadcasting

 

[Goldie]

Sheppard Ave. E. looking W. to Woodbine 1965 ---- Wow! That's 42.9 a gallon!

Sheppard now travels over the huge, wide Hwy 404 (formerly Woodbine)

 

[lenaitch]

Sheppard Ave. E. looking W. to Woodbine 1965 ---- Wow! That's 42.9 a gallon!

Used to be able to cruise all night for $2. A little more once I could afford a higher performance V8.

 

[Goldie]

Demolition on Yonge St. 1954 (The Arcade Bldg.) CTA

Looking E. along Temperance St. to Yonge St.

 

[lenaitch]

Interesting vignette in the old photo. Very light pedestrian and vehicular traffic; a couple of young males making some kind of gesture; probably a city worker with a broom; it looks like the Temperman Wrecking sign says 'all materials for sale'; to open 'honour system' newspaper box; the stop sign on the sidewalk side of the pole and the old fire call box.

 

[Goldie]

York-Adelaide S-E corner, 1972 CTA

 

[egotrippin]

The loss of the Yonge Street Arcade always kills me, nothing else like it in the city. For what it's worth the cleaned up facades on Temperance are looking quite sharp, but just imagine a restored Arcade bookending that view. *sigh*

 

[Goldie]

South side Cairns Ave. looking East from Coxwell Ave. 1929 CTA

 

[old boy]

Leslie Street Public School c.1920s S/W corner Leslie St. at Sproat Ave.
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Kindergarten and Grade one there. Miss Polley and Miss Woods respectively as my first teachers. We lived on Galt Avenue until 1956. We thought downtown was the Danforth, haha. One day we went to the 4th floor and we could see the real downtown for the first time...Bank of Commerce building and the Royal York.

 

[Goldie]

Danforth Ave, west of Coxwell, looking west 1936 CTA